[Wylug-announce] Re: ShefLUG February Meeting - Alan Cox Lecture and NASA Presentation

[Richard Ibbotson]

Hi

I did explain in the last one that there would be an update so that 
people who wanted to be around for the afternoon session as well a 
the morning session could find out where it is.  The following is in 
addition to the morning session at the University of Sheffield 
Engineering Department with Alan Cox.  Information about the Alan Cox 
session was in a previous announcement.  You should have received 
that already.

Megan Larko will talk about her work for NASA.  This might involve
a short discussion about clusters and some features of network
security.   Megan was a Senior Sysadmin at NASA/Goddard Space Flight
Center until January of this year.  She had been there for more than 
20 years.  She has been working with GNU/Linux since early Slackware 
and pre-RedHat 4.2 and 2.0 kernel days.  She ran the Linux Land 
Information Center data cluster which won the software of the year 
award in 2005.  For more about that have a look at...

                http://lis.gsfc.nasa.gov
            http://icb.nasa.gov/nasaswy.html

Megan also managed e-mail and web servers and many workstations and
she loves to do custom kernels.   Her favourite recent project is
the Web 100 modification to SSH that came out of the University of
Pittsburgh.

        http://www.psc.edu/networking/projects/hpn-ssh
              http://www.web100.org/download

The venue for this meeting will be the Sheffield Hallam University
Room 943 in the Owen Building (Level 9) City Campus is now booked for 
the 4th February for the period of 14.00 until 17.00.  To get to 
level 9 you have to walk in through the front door at SHU and find 
the lift on level 5.  Take the lift to level 9.  The venue is just 
across the road from Sheffield Midland station.  For info about the 
venue have a look at...

      http://www.shu.ac.uk/services/marketing/visit/

There will most likely be dinner afterwards at the East  Ocean Seafood 
Restaurant which is just across the road.  After that we will 
probably retire to a smoke free establishment where high quality 
Belgian and British beer will be served on tap.

Hope we see you there :)


-- 
Richard
www.sheflug.co.uk